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VCON Telecommunications Ltd. (the

VCON Telecommunications Ltd. (the "Company"): Notice Of An Extraordinary General Meeting And An Annual General Meeting

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

TEL AVIV, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- All shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") are hereby cordially invited to attend:

(i) an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company (the "Extraordinary Meeting") to be held on July 16, 2008 at 10:00 (Israel time); and

(ii) an Annual General Meeting of the Company (the "Annual Meeting") to be held on July 16, 2008 at 15:00 Israel time.

The Extraordinary Meeting and the Annual Meeting shall be referred to jointly as the "Meetings").

Both Meetings are to be held at 2 Weizmann St., Tel Aviv 6423, Israel, floor 17 at the offices of Goldfarb Levy, Eran Meiri & Co.

Mishcon De Reya Gets The KnowHow

Mishcon De Reya Gets The KnowHow

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a successful trial, law firm Mishcon de Reya has deployed Solcara's KnowHow and SolSearch software products within its UK business.

Mishcon chose Solcara over other products, due to its desire for effective knowledge management and enhanced internal communications and a need for a solution which fitted in with its existing IT systems.

Caren Gestetner, the Partner at Mishcon de Reya with responsibility for Knowledge Management commented on the deal:

England Footballer Geoff Thomas Demands Government Funding To Beat Leukeamia

England Footballer Geoff Thomas Demands Government Funding To Beat Leukeamia

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

Former England footballer, Geoff Thomas is pressing the Government for urgently needed cash to develop and deliver new leukaemia treatments.

Thomas, a leukaemia survivor himself, is leading a presentation to the All Party Cancer Group of MPs at Westminster, at the invitation of MP's Julie Kirkbride and the committee Chairman Dr Ian Gibson on Monday June 9th.

He is urging the Government to back his 5 year, GBP20m public/private funding campaign to finance drug and other treatment trials to tackle leukaemia and other blood cancers.

Planalytics United Kingdom WeatherCall Report: A Significant Difference Between Early And Late May Produces Mixed Results For Th

Planalytics United Kingdom WeatherCall Report: A Significant Difference Between Early And Late May Produces Mixed Results For Th

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), released its May WeatherCall(SM) report highlighting an excellent start to the month, followed by a sharp downturn. The beginning of May showed many positive signs due to favourable weather conditions and sales surged as pent up demand was released after a sluggish April. Temperatures were on the rise heading into the month, and consumers were quick to respond, purchasing warm weather goods such as T-shirts and garden products.

Crossbeam Systems Helps BT Strengthen Its Virtualised Security Offering

Crossbeam Systems Helps BT Strengthen Its Virtualised Security Offering

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

BOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- X-Series Platform Enables Delivery of 'In-the-Cloud' Virtualised Firewall Services to Enterprise Customers

Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced that BT has deployed Crossbeam's X-Series Next Generation Security Platform to help protect its internal network as well as deliver a new generation of "in-the-cloud" virtualised firewall security services to enterprise customers.

Merced Systems, Inc. Acquires Practique Associates, Europe's Leading Sales Performance Management Vendor

Merced Systems, Inc. Acquires Practique Associates, Europe's Leading Sales Performance Management Vendor

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

REDWOOD SHORES, California and LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merced Systems Assumes Leadership Position in the Sales and Service Performance Management Market, Providing Analytic Applications to Critical Customer-Facing Operations

ChemDiv To Provide Schering Plough Corporation With Discovery Libraries In Multiyear Agreement

ChemDiv To Provide Schering Plough Corporation With Discovery Libraries In Multiyear Agreement

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

SAN DIEGO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

ChemDiv announced today the continuation of multi-year collaboration with Schering Plough Corporation. In the framework of this collaboration ChemDiv will provide Schering Plough with a set of chemical libraries that will be produced through parallel synthesis based on the customer selected templates. In accordance with the agreement teams of ChemDiv and Schering Plough scientists will work closely to develop exclusive small molecule libraries enhancing Schering Plough's global drug discovery effort. Further details and financial terms were not disclosed.

ION And Fugro-Geoteam Advance Marine Streamer Acquisition

ION And Fugro-Geoteam Advance Marine Streamer Acquisition

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

HOUSTON and OSLO, Norway, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaboration Improves Productivity and Data Quality for Offshore Seismic Operations

ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) and Fugro-Geoteam announced today their ongoing collaboration to deploy state-of-the-art streamer acquisition technologies. As a company committed to providing a technical edge to its oil & gas company customers, Fugro has begun to outfit its modern seismic fleet with three advanced technologies from ION's Intelligent Acquisition(TM) [IA] portfolio:

Bridgewater Systems Announces Three-Year Contract With Verizon Wireless

Bridgewater Systems Announces Three-Year Contract With Verizon Wireless

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

OTTAWA, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bridgewater to Deploy Integrated Solution to Help Verizon Wireless Manage Data Services Delivery

Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC) today announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract to supply Verizon Wireless with a fully integrated subscriber data management and service control solution for its award-winning network. The agreement will result in an initial value of approximately CND$30 million.

The integrated solution combines Bridgewater's carrier-grade software with third-party hardware and software, and services to provide the performance, capacity, scalability and resiliency needed to support data services delivery. Bridgewater expects to begin delivering the solution in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Micrel Slashes BOM Costs With New 2.5Gbps Laser Diode Driver Featuring APC And Power Monitoring

Micrel Slashes BOM Costs With New 2.5Gbps Laser Diode Driver Featuring APC And Power Monitoring

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Solution Provides More Flexibility, Less Costly Option

SemBioSys Demonstrates Functionality Of Its Safflower Produced Apo AI(Milano)

SemBioSys Demonstrates Functionality Of Its Safflower Produced Apo AI(Milano)

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

CALGARY, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Achieves Important Milestone in Development of Next Generation Cardiovascular Drug

WHO Report Says 9.7 Million At Risk Of Death From AIDS Today; AHF Renews Call For US Congress To Commit To Scale Up Treatment To

WHO Report Says 9.7 Million At Risk Of Death From AIDS Today; AHF Renews Call For US Congress To Commit To Scale Up Treatment To

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LOS ANGELES, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The release of a World Health Organization/UNAIDS/UNICEF report on Monday documents appreciable global progress in the effort to deliver lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ARVs) to people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries; however, it also underscores the crucial need to maintain a focus on scaling up and providing lifesaving antiretroviral treatment in programs like PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) notes AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

Weight Management Solution Helps You Lose Or Gain As Much Weight As You Choose

Weight Management Solution Helps You Lose Or Gain As Much Weight As You Choose

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

You can lose 6.8 kg (15 lbs), 68 kg (150 lbs) and more, or even gain weight if you are below your ideal weight according to a new weight management system designed by Michael Dow, a new author.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080605/NYFNSA03)

Dow says anyone can learn to manage their weight with this diet. It's described in The Pen and Paper Diet and available at http://stores.lulu.com/thepenandpaperdiet.

"The Pen and Paper Diet is based on the known fact that your body requires a certain amount of calories to maintain a certain weight. If a person consumes excess calories, then fat is produced and a person's weight increases," says Dow.

"Hello Cells? This Is Artificial Polymer Vesicles Calling ..."

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

Cameron Alexander and George Pasparakis at the University of Nottingham have been able to facilitate a conversation between bacterial cells and artificial polymer vesicles by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface.

For an organism to develop and function, the individual cells must exchange information, or communicate, with each other. Is it possible to learn their language and "talk to" the cells?

Apparently so. In the journal Angewandte Chemie Alexander and Pasparakis report that this first communication occurred by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface. The vesicles subsequently transfer information to the cells—in the form of dye molecules.

Two Sustainability Ideas For Greener IT Practises

Two Sustainability Ideas For Greener IT Practises

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- With the increased size in datacentres, a direct repercussion on ordinary power consumption can easily be predicted*. Additionally unnecessary hardware upgrades means old plastic harmfully entering into the environment as waste. To counter this impact, IT administrators need to find sustainability solutions in both energy consumption and solid waste.

Finally, Push Email For The Rest Of Us - BlueWhaleMail

Finally, Push Email For The Rest Of Us - BlueWhaleMail

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Email plus Facebook wall posting and messaging with news and status updates delivered straight to your mobile

Launched today, a new, free service for mobile phones starts bringing easy email access to the 2.7 billion people with ordinary mobile phones. Michael Maguire, who previously worked in the BlackBerry Applications team at Research In Motion, founded Blue Whale Systems Ltd: its BlueWhaleMail application offers a free mobile push email and push Facebook service. On launch, the service will initially be available for Nokia Series 60 and SonyEricsson feature phones.

Diskeeper Reveals Best Defrag Solution For Exchange Servers

Diskeeper Reveals Best Defrag Solution For Exchange Servers

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

EAST GRINSTEAD, England, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation Europe reveals that Diskeeper(R) 2008 Enterprise Server improves Exchange servers' performance and reliability at all times; operating with outmost security in the background, it represents the safest and most efficient solution on the market.

With the constant I/O that goes on with busy Exchange servers, fragmentation of files and free space can substantially degrade system performance and increase backup times on heavily used servers.

Eurail Encourages Travel To Spain And Expo 2008

Eurail Encourages Travel To Spain And Expo 2008

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Eurail Pass Holders Benefit From Expo 2008 Discount

The Eurail Group has partnered with the organizers of Expo 2008 to offer a special discount on the entrance fee to Eurail Pass holders.

This year's International Exposition takes place in Zaragoza, Spain from June 14th until September 14th and is expected to attract 4.5 million visitors from all over the world. The theme is "Water and Sustainable Development", an especially relevant topic given today's increasing focus on environmental awareness worldwide.

"One World Award" - Design Globalization Positive - The Finalists

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

LEGAU, Germany, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Germany/ Ethiopia /India /Sri Lanka/ Taiwan/ Turkey. The Finalists of the First, International "One World Award" Have Been Announced. The Visit of the Five Selected Projects has Confirmed That the Activities of the Prize Winners Agree to the Aims of the "One World Award"

The five finalists of the "One World Award" 2008 carry their parts with extraordinary engagement and have all shown commitment to showing that the future of globalization is positive. The finalists are:

'.Asia' Hot-or-Not Contest Launches: US$15,000 Cash Prize!

'.Asia' Hot-or-Not Contest Launches: US$15,000 Cash Prize!

Jun 05 2008 | comment(s)

HONG KONG, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Identify the ".Asia" Domain Fetching Highest Auction Price to Win!

DotAsia Organisation officially announces the ".Asia" Hot-or-Not Domains Appraisal Contest. Identify the ".Asia" domain fetching the highest auction price in the ".Asia" Sunrise and Landrush Auctions and walk away with US$15,000 cash prize. Since its soft launch earlier, entries have already been received around the world at the contest website: http://www.think.asia, demonstrating the global appeal of the ".Asia" domain.